Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Canal store at Pencelli
Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pencelli, Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, designated on 17 December 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 17 December 1998
- Locality
- Pencelli
- Community
- Talybont-on-Usk
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91609, -3.32031
- Cadw reference
- 21155
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Fronting the canal towpath in the centre of Pencelli, adjacent to The Royal Oak.
History
Function unknown, probably a store, but clearly associated with the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, this section completed c 1800. The Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal was promoted in 1792 to connect the upper Usk valley with the Monmouthshire Canal at Pontymoile and from there to the sea at Newport. First section, between Gilwern and Talybont, was cut between 1797 and 1799, with upper section between Talybont and Brecon opened in 1800, both sections engineered by Thomas Dadford. Lower section between Gilwern and Pontymoile completed 1812 and engineered by William Crosley. Linked to tramroads, the canal was an important artery for trade in iron, lime and coal. In 1865 the Brecknock and Abergavenny and the Monmouthshire Canals merged to become the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, which was later incorporated into the Great Western Railway.
Exterior
A single storey building of rubble stone with single pitch roof sloping away from the higher entrance wall which has a segmental arched doorway with metal gate to left; corrugated roof.
Reason for designation
Included for its relationship with the canal and for group value with The Royal Oak and Bridge 154.
Nearby in the register
- The Royal OakCommercialunder 1 mi
- Pencelli Bridge (Canal Bridge No.154)Transportunder 1 mi
- Pencelli Court (also known as Penkelly Court) including attached byreDomesticunder 1 mi
- Byre at Pencelli Court.Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.